Conventional contaminated site assessment requires sophisticated sampling and laboratory analyses, which are costly and time consuming. There is a trend for soil analyses to shift from complex laboratory procedures to rapid, simple and…
With the present energy scenario, the oil companies are persuading to exploit crude oil resources with high viscosity and an extreme chemical composition which makes production and transportation complex. The rheology of crude oil is related to the…
Recently, there has been an interest in solvent extraction for extraction organic matter from oil shale. Heating of oil shale in an inert atmosphere facilitated the extraction of the organic matter by solvent extraction. In this research, shale oil…
Combustion characteristics of palm biodiesel/methyl esters (PME) and natural gas (NG) blend were examined using a model gas turbine swirl burner at vane angle () 30, 45 and 60. A twin fluid air blast atomiser was utilised for atomising liquid fuel at…
Abstract: The effect from the combined action of a low-frequency acoustic field, a demulsifier (DE), and the temperature factor on the stability of the water-in-oil emulsions formed by crude oils differing in the contents of resins, asphaltenes, and…
The use of NiO nanoparticles as asphaltene co-precipitant additives is studied to improve the upgraded oil's properties and potentially reduce the solvent-to-oil ratio for the in-situ upgrading of heavy oils via solvent deasphalting. Asphaltene…
Following a previously reported experimental procedure, a heavy petroleum sample was fractionated by mixing a predefined volume of oil with liquid propane above its saturation pressure at different propane/oil ratios. The separated fractions,…
The use of NiO nanoparticles as asphaltene co-precipitant additives is studied to improve the upgraded oil's properties and potentially reduce the solvent-to-oil ratio for the in-situ upgrading of heavy oils via solvent deasphalting. Asphaltene…